I am a Postdoctoral Associate at NYU Abu Dhabi. I hold a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University. I specialize in comparative politics and political economy. My research interests are at the intersection of the political economy of development, distributive politics, and identity politics. In my research, I use various methodological tools, including statistical methods, formal theory, survey experiments, case studies, and archival methods. The regional focus of my research is the contemporary and historical Middle East.

In my book manuscript, I explore how ethnic and religious diversity shape the patterns of state building and distributional outcomes. The proposal of the manuscript is at the R&R stage at Cambridge University Press. You can find a description of the manuscript here.

My work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Historical Political Economy, and Party Politics. For my published and other projects, you can visit my research page.